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- Autumn steam sale started everything with 75 % discount.
- I got everything... now I'm poor :D
Now I wonder if we still can register them on our sims 3 store account lol
*edit : we can and depending game you bought you may get points as reward... Yeah ! I now have at least 1 world beside Riverview from the store ! :D * - ZeeGee1Seasoned Hotshot@Chiixsanne That's great! Not that you're poor, but that you got a new world with your points. Being poor is okay too, cause you got the Sims 3 so don't need money to go out anymore! :lol:
@Babykittyjade You're welcome :) "ZeeGee;c-17332852" wrote:
@ScottDemon Won't it be up to Steam as to whether or not to accept it?
No, Steam is a distributer they don't own the rights to the games they have to do what the Copyright holder tells them.
The only thing Steam can do is put the games up for sale anytime they choose. As well as remove the games from their store.- UlanDhorSeasoned Novice
"ScottDemon;c-17332856" wrote:
No, Steam is a distributer they don't own the rights to the games they have to do what the Copyright holder tells them.
It's even more hands-off. On Steam, every game developer and/or publisher does any changes they want themselves, as they have direct control over all the files of their games stored there. Steam only handles complaints after the fact, and the point that originally led to the argument between the two companies is long gone (other companies have been requiring the use of several platforms at once for years). - ZeeGee1Seasoned Hotshot
"ScottDemon;c-17333156" wrote:
No, the original argument between the two companies was a breach of contract by EA over an attempt to cut Steam/Valve out of the DLC sales by making all DLC sold only by Origin requiring Steam customers to get the DLC through Origin.
So Steam would be completely cut out or Steam customers would have to go through both the Steam client AND the Origin client? "ZeeGee;c-17333203" wrote:
"ScottDemon;c-17333156" wrote:
No, the original argument between the two companies was a breach of contract by EA over an attempt to cut Steam/Valve out of the DLC sales by making all DLC sold only by Origin requiring Steam customers to get the DLC through Origin.
So Steam would be completely cut out or Steam customers would have to go through both the Steam client AND the Origin client?
Not exactly. Steam would get no cut of the sales but would have to maintain the DLC's on their servers without monetary compensation. Steam customers would have to buy the DLC from Origin then redeem the code on Steam and download the DLC from Steam. It's not the same as buying from Steam and then redeeming on Origin as EA already got their money from the Steam sale.
Basically EA was trying to treat Valve as one of it's studios which wasn't going to happen.- @ZeeGee your welcome. I worked for Valve during that time so I knew a lot of what happened. I was one of the desk jockeys that maintained the servers for Steam at one of their Data Centers. The one I was at was in Bellevue, WA just across the street from their corporate headquarters. You won't believe how many HDD's we would have to replace in week and during sales it was a nightmare keeping them up and running.
- The Sale ended next will Winter sale, the sale will start on 19th December.
- Winter sale started and again everything on Steam has 75 % discount.
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